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Article: Beckert? was 'rock' of family?
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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BETHANY -- Esther V. Beckert was very independent. "She was
driving until she was 86," recalled a son, Rudolph "Rudy" Beckert
Jr. of Bethany. "She didn't get her driver's license until after my
father died, which was 1970 and she was 52 or so. She started
driving people to doctor appointments and shopping, and was doing so
until she was 84. She lived in an apartment attached to my house and
a week would go by that I wouldn't see her. She did all her own
shopping."
"My mother didn't drive in her later years and Esther took her
everywhere," said longtime family friend and neighbor Cornell
Bialicki of Bethany. "They met in the 1970s when we moved to
Bethany, and we lived just down the street ...